Book Reviews
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Review: Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults) edited by Alice Wong (Release: 10/26/2021)
I received an e-ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed this collection and reading it made me want to pick up the larger collection of essays. This collection is nicely organized with clear themes, and each piece is on the shorter side, so it is easy to read it a bit…
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Review: Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You by Misha Collins (Release 10/19/2021)
I received an e-ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this poetry collection. It was really interesting to get to see some of the private thoughts and musings over the years from someone so heavily in the public eye. However, because these poems are all written at…
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Review: Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things by Amanda Lovelace (Release 10/05/2021)
I received an e-ARC of this poetry collection from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I love the writing style of this author. When I read Shine Your Icy Crown at the beginning of this year, I was transfixed by her writing style and immediately went and read every other collection…
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Review: Me (Moth) by Amber McBride (Release 08/17/2021)
I received an e-ARC of this book through NetGalley as part of a publisher giveaway. I love novels in verse, and this book was no exception to my love for the format. The lyrical flow of these novels allow me to easily fall into the stories being told, and I love being swept up in…
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Review: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee (Release 08/02/2021)
I recieved an eARC of this book from the publisher through a giveaway fulfilled on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this book. I found myself devouring it as I just wanted to know what was going to happen next. A Lesson in Vengeance is filled with twists and moments that made…
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Review: Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Frasier (Release 08/10/2021)
I was provided an eARC of this graphic novel through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this graphic novel. The art style was super cute and felt aimed at teens and young adults instead of feeling infantile. The messaging in the novel to be true to yourself and friends and acceptance…
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Review: Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Release 06/29/2021)
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Gearbreakers is a fast-paced debut sci-fi YA novel that asks the question of if there is any truly effective way to fight gods. I really enjoyed this book or the first 70% of it at least. I…
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Review: Darling by K. Ancrum (Release 06/22/2021)
I received an ARC of this novel through NetGalley from the publisher’s giveaway, in exchange for an honest review. I had read the author’s debut novel a few months back and found myself deeply immersed in the world-building and suspense of The Wicker King and its companion novella The Iron Raven. Knowing that creeping dread…
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Review: Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (Release 06/08/2021)
I received an e-arc of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I loved this book. It was sweet and fun and funny even when things got dark. I struggled to get into it at first but the further I read, the more immersed in the story I was and the more…
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Review: Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin (Release 06/01/2021)
I really wanted to enjoy this book, but I found it to drag on a lot, and wondering when it would end. Part of my problem with this book is that there are no chapters in this book, there is nothing breaking up the book into more manageable chunks. I understand that for some this…